click image to download??

Not sure if this question really belongs in this forum or not but hey it involves an image. Basically I want people to be able to click on an image & instantly download an mp3. Im using dreamweaver 8. I know how to link the image to the mp3 but that way people have to right click & "save target as" to download. I want people to be able to just click on the image & start the download but I dont know how to set this up. Can any help me out with this???

Moved to HTML forum.

There is no way to get around that. Browsers choose how to handle downloads individually. It would be a huge security hole in Windows if downloads started without confirmation.

I dont want the download to start automatically i just want to have a button/image/icon that says "download" and if you click on it it starts the download. Sort of like on this site http://www.download.com/McAfee-SiteA...-10508464.html. Here if you click where it says download now the download starts. I want to set something like that up.

<a href="file-to-be-downloaded.zip">Download File</a>

Or do you want a file to just download instead of it being displayed (or played) in the browser itself?

Thanks. I change the code a little to incoperate the image i want to use. <a href="insert file to be downloaded"><img src="Insert image" /></a>

But with that code if a user was to click on the image to download the file (which is an mp3) it plays it rather than starting the download. the user could start the download by right clicking & chosing "save target as" but I would like to set it up so that when the image is clicked a windows dialog box will pop up starting the download & asking where they would like to save the file.

I think you can use PHP to force the download. You'd have to set up a lot of security measures, though. The script is rather dangerous.

Make the the mp3 file into a zip file or even a self executable zip, that way it will download instead of play. I had the same problem with some pps files on my website and making them into a self executing zip file fixed it, if you need help doing that just holler.

Here are some examples of the PHP force download:

http://www.google.com/search?q=PHP%20Force%20Download

Thanks for help guys! its much appreciated! Thank you. So how do I go about making a self executable zip? I know how to zip a file and I'll try that when I get a chance but whats a self executable zip? that sounds cool.

It's a zip that opens itself silly =P

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